Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>> David Jardine <david@jardine.de> writes:
>> 
>> > 	nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile
>> 
>> That will write "nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'" to the file
>> somefile :-)
>> 
>> The output from somecommand will still end up in nohup.out.
>
> No it won't.  At least not on my system for a simple command like
> 'ls':

Oh!  Fascinating.  Does nohup look with isatty(3) to determine what it
should do?

Thank you so much.

Kai